Add this copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson Including Boswell's Journal to cart. $163.44, good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1887 by At The Clarendon Press.
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None. Good Only. A complete set of James Boswell's biography of the illustrious man of letters, Dr Samuel Johnson. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Also containing Boswell's Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Illustrated throughout with fourteen plates (collated complete), including a folding coloured map. Volume I: The Life (1709-1765), Volume II: The Life (1766-1776), Volume III: The Life (1776-1780), Volume IV: The Life (1780-1784), Volume V: The Tour to the Hebrides and The Journey into North Wales, and Volume VI: Addenda, Index, Dicta Philosophi, etc. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Regardless of these actions, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography as an important source of information. The work was popular among early audiences and with modern critics. Complete in six volumes. In green cloth bindings. Externally sound, though with some light bumping and wear to the extremities. Erased library markings to spine. 1 hinge tender, with endpapers and frontispiece working loose, with all other hinges strained. Internally, binding strained in places. Institutional label to endpapers, and ink stamps throughout. Pages are slightly browned. Good Only.
Add this copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; Including Boswell's Journal to cart. $266.00, very good condition, Sold by Artis Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Calumet, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1887 by Oxford Clarendon Press.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Short ink gift inscription in #1. Henry Frowde. About 400pp each. Portraits. Facsimiles. Gilt tops. Green cloth. Very nice near fine. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" Tall.
Add this copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson Including Boswell's Journal to cart. $602.00, good condition, Sold by Columbia Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Columbia, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1889.
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1889 Boswell, James BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON INCLUDING BOSWELL'S JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES AND JOHNSON'S DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES Edited George Birkbeck Hill NY: Harper & Brothers, 1889 De Luxe Edition #33/300 copies 6 volumes illustrated with plates, facsimiles of letters, maps, portraits Oversize 8vo White buckram over grey paper-covered boards, buckram corners, printed paper spine labels, upper edges gilt There is some minor shelf-rubbing and soiling on the covers There is a short split up from the lower edge of the spine on Volume I The spine label on Volume III is missing the lower corner and has minor damage along one edge The lower portion of the inside front hinge of Volume III has been mended One of the folding plates in Volume I has some damage from being carelessly unfolded, a folding plate in Volume III has been torn from being carelessly unfolded There is overall light toning to the textblock pages due to age, otherwise this is an attractive near fine hardcover set.
